Hey everyone! Quick update: I get my second surgery out of the way this very Thursday, January 4th. I only found out the date last week, so it’s a pretty fast turnaround! The surgeons will approach through the temporal bone this time, and there’s much less to remove so hopefully surgery and the subsequent recovery […]
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Climbing Nutrition’s 2017 in Review
In just a few short days, 2017 will be over and we’ll embark into the New Year of 2018. Overall, it was a good year for Climbing Nutrition. Personally, I’ve had better(!), but that saga will continue into the New Year. As 2017 winds up, I’d like to revisit some of the top articles of […]
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Siberian Ginseng & Climbing
I recently wrote a supplement guide on Siberian ginseng, also known as ciwujia. My goal with the supplement guides is to put the facts out there as best as can be determined by the science available, but this leads to a colder, more academic-feeling article. I think it’s important to have these articles out there—I […]
Read the full article...Chondro Update #4
Hey Everyone, I had my 3-month MRI yesterday and a follow-up visit with the neurosurgeon afterwards. My head has healed well, but unfortunately now that everything is clear the surgeon can see there’s a little tumor left behind in an area that wasn’t accessible during my last surgery. This was always a possibility, but it’s […]
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ClimbSci Episode 3: Fat
Hey Everyone! Tom and I have released the latest episode of ClimbSci. As always, you can find the notes on the ClimbSci website; the episode itself can be watched or listened to below. YouTube https://youtu.be/caarp8Zh_dA SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/climbsci/03-fat
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Siberian Ginseng (Ciwujia) Supplement Guide
Facts at a Glance Siberian ginseng (ciwujia) is an adaptogenic herb thought to increase endurance. There are two active ingredients in the plant: the eleutherosides derived from the root and the ciwujianosides derived from the leaves; both appear to have similar effects, but only the former are commonly found in formulations. Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) is in the […]
Read the full article...Environmental Impacts of Organic and Conventional Agriculture
Almost two years ago, I wrote a long article about organic agriculture. The overall theme of the article was that the organic label isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; it’s not always (or even routinely) healthier, it’s not always better for the environment, and remove from its marketing, it’s not often subjectively “better” in […]
Read the full article...CO2 and Staple Crop Nutrition
There have been a few articles the past few weeks about the effect of carbon dioxide on the nutritional properties of crops, based on the research of Irakli Loladze, a math doctorate who became interested in a biological puzzle about two decades ago. If you haven’t read on this topic, here’s a good article that […]
Read the full article...Post-Surgery Update #3
Hey Everyone! I had my first follow-up appointment with my surgeon yesterday, and I have another one today mostly to talk about what I can and can’t do—specifically vis-a-vis handstands, which was a question my neurosurgeon did not expect me to ask! So far, however, all the “normal” restrictions have been removed; I can sneeze again, blow […]
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5 Tips for Improving Your Handstand
This article is somewhat bittersweet for me because I’m not sure when I’ll be allowed to do handstands again; it could be in a couple weeks (unlikely), or a couple months (more likely). Originally, it was going to be a video—and it still will be eventually—but I realized that I don’t have enough footage to […]
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